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...walking down the hall. Zanuck left in 1956, but returned in triumph six years later, following a boardroom coup in the wake of the Cleopatra debacle. He made his son Richard president, then kicked him out, only to be forced aside himself a few months later. (Richard had another stint at Fox, and coproduced such films as The Sting and Jaws.) While other studios, like Paramount and Columbia Pictures, were being swallowed by conglomerates, the purchase by Davis and his partner Marc Rich seemed to presage a return to Hollywood's good old bad days of iron rule...
Coffey joined the Post in 1968 fresh from the University of Virginia. After a four-year stint as editor of the paper's Sunday magazine, he took over the Style section in 1976. Coffey won a reputation as an imaginative editor who had a deft hand with journalists as well as copy. An intense worker who sometimes called writers late at night to discuss stories, Coffey shook most of the fluff out of Style's pages and introduced more late-breaking news. Named an assistant managing editor in charge of national news in December, Coffey was considered a contender...
After Leslie Gelb resigned as director of the State Department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in 1979, his former employer, the New York Times, welcomed him back as national security correspondent. His stint in Government, after all, had only enhanced his sources. Last week, however, Gelb was declared persona non grata at a key stop on his beat: the Bureau of Politico- Military Affairs. The director, Lieut. General John Chain Jr., who has been cooperative with journalists, ordered his staff not to speak to Gelb again. The reason was a report by Gelb in the Feb. 13 edition...
...bringing her glow to the phosphors of the TV screen for the first time. In three weeks Gardner will star on NBC's A.D., a Christians vs. lions mini-series in which she plays Agrippina, Nero's manipulative mother. Last week brought the start of her seven-episode stint on Knots Landing, in which she portrays the wealthy Ruth Sumner, another manipulative mother and one of those prime-time soap characters like J.R. and Alexis who manage to drub everyone the wrong way. "It's a whole new way of working," says Gardner. "I can't seem to calm down...
...life as the son of a synagogue cantor in New York City. After studying philosophy at Princeton, the future raider spent two years in medical school, but quit when he realized that he was not enjoying the work--and becoming a bit of a hypochondriac to boot. After a stint in the Army at Fort Sam Houston, he used a few thousand dollars won in barracks poker games to get started on Wall Street. He made $50,000 in the bull market of 1961, then lost it just as quickly when stocks tumbled. To this day he is wary...